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It's a giant puffball mushroom. Edible and seen mostly in August and September here, if we've had enough moisture.

I cut them in steaks, brush with olive oil and finely minced garlic, put a few needles of fresh rosemary in a hot pan, throw in the steak and fry it. Also good grilled with the same seasonings.

Here is a picture before I picked it.
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Macro photography is so interesting - you're able to see things you can't normally see.
Yep, that's what I like about them. Here's a good shot of a dragonfly that shows his leg hairs. You really can't see those with your eyeballs 'cause they fly away if you get close enough. I was at least a foot away with the camera (NOT set on "macro"). If I could have gotten up close with the macro setting, one leg would fill the whole frame
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Very nice photo. The leg hairs form a sort of net that increases the damselfly's ability to capture mosquitos and gnats on the wing. They're deadly fly catchers. Those little point & shoots with lens like 23mm are great for depth of field.
 
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It's a giant puffball mushroom. Edible and seen mostly in August and September here, if we've had enough moisture.

I cut them in steaks, brush with olive oil and finely minced garlic, put a few needles of fresh rosemary in a hot pan, throw in the steak and fry it. Also good grilled with the same seasonings.

Here is a picture before I picked it.
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Tim - shoot a photo of what it looks like sliced please. I've never seen one of those. I've seen small puff ball fungus in the jungle and pretty sure they weren't edible. If you pushed on them with a finger or toe of your boot black spores smoked out.
 
It's a giant puffball mushroom. Edible and seen mostly in August and September here, if we've had enough moisture.

I cut them in steaks, brush with olive oil and finely minced garlic, put a few needles of fresh rosemary in a hot pan, throw in the steak and fry it. Also good grilled with the same seasonings.

Here is a picture before I picked it.
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Wow, I remember seeing them as a kid in Missouri, never anywhere near that size though. Didn't know they were edible, we just stomped them when they were dry to see the puff...
 
Tim - shoot a photo of what it looks like sliced please. I've never seen one of those. I've seen small puff ball fungus in the jungle and pretty sure they weren't edible. If you pushed on them with a finger or toe of your boot black spores smoked out.
The one yesterday was yellow-geeen inside so beyond eating stage. Went back to the patch and picked another one this afternoon.

Here it is in situ.

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And sliced. Nice creamy white color. They are very delicate and the flesh tears easily, even with the sharpest knife.

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Hope you got paid in hamburger or sausage and not the eggplant thingie!
Thought that might come up Mike. This was a tiny payback for all the stuff he has done for me over the years. Right now getting all the maters I can eat. He lets me know what I need at the store when he goes and helped by set the Grizzly bandsaw on the mobile base. He is always available. Good neighbors all around me.
 
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